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Subject: MOSCOW
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BY MOSCOW SELF-DEVOTED TO A BLAZE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Finish the strife by deadliest victory!
Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Moscow; Victory


CAPITAL / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter. The city sleeps in its yellow mist
Last Line: And hear the riderless beast of the state paw the roof
Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Moscow


CAPITOL, by INNOKENTI FYODOROVICH ANNENSKY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's winter. The city sleeps in its yellow mist
Last Line: And hear the riderless beast of the state paw the roof
Alternate Author Name(s): Annenski, Innokenti Fyodorovich
Subject(s): Moscow


CITIES: 5. MOSCOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High cheek-boned and bloody
Last Line: Of the very christ she curses.
Subject(s): Hate; Hunger; Moscow; Nations


DECEMBER IN MOSCOW, by MIRIAM VAN HEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it rains in the city
Last Line: Who would make you and me %into someone else
Subject(s): December; Moscow; Rain


MOSCOW, by KARL THEODORE KORNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How thy church domes swell yonder, amply rounded!
Last Line: And conquering st. George his lance hath shaken!
Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore
Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


MOSCOW, by JESSY RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The doorman thinks I look like anna karenina
Last Line: Whispering to me in our little moscow bed
Subject(s): Hotels; Moscow; Travel


MOSCOW, by CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spires of moscow glittering from afar
Last Line: Point their red spires, and sail along the sky.
Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


MOSCOW BELLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That distant chime! As soft it swells
Last Line: And the thunder's boom below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Bells; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


ON THE WAY OF THE CROSS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the way of the cross we were comrades
Last Line: And your children forever be comrades?
Subject(s): Moscow; World War I; First World War


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold onions rooted in the sky
Last Line: To keep such beauty singular
Subject(s): Moscow


POSTCARDS FROM SOVIET CITIES: MOSCOW, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold onions rooted in the sky
Last Line: To keep such beauty singular
Subject(s): Moscow


PROSE OF THE TRANS-SIBERIAN AND OF LITTLE JEANNE OF FRAN, by FREDERIC SAUSER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back then I was still young
Last Line: City of the incomparable tower the great gibbet and the wheel
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise
Subject(s): Moscow; Paris, France; Travel


SUNSET IN MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the splendor of the city
Last Line: Chill the wind of midnight blows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): Moscow At Evening
Subject(s): Evening; Moscow; Russia; Sunset; Twilight; Soviet Union; Russians


THE CONFLAGRATION OF MOSCOW, by CALEB C. COLTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her royal nest the russian eagle fires
Last Line: Rebukes, and says to glory -- follow me!
Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleonic Wars


THE MARCH TO MOSCOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The emperor nap he would set off
Last Line: As there was on the road from moscow.
Subject(s): Moscow; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Russia; Russia - Napoleonic War; Soviet Union; Russians


THE MUSCOVITE'S SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll, thou mighty moscow bell
Last Line: Toll the dawn, o moscow bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Bells; Moscow; Singing & Singers


THE SHRINES OF MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above each gate a blessed saint
Last Line: They are the stars, and she the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Kremlin, Moscow; Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


TO MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the steppe we journeyed
Last Line: The jewel of the czars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Moscow; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians